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03717aam a2200625Ii 4500 001 1B445DECACCA11ECBC97898D42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220326010013 008 210409t20222020nyua e b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0063211319 020 $a 9780063211315 020 $a 0063139464 020 $a 9780063139466 035 $a (OCoLC)1274174356 040 $a CNEDM $b eng $e rda $c CNEDM $d PX0 $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a e-gr--- 082 04 $a 292.211 $2 23 100 1 $a Haynes, Natalie, $e author. 245 10 $a Pandora's jar : $b women in Greek myths / $c Natalie Haynes. 246 34 $a Pandora's jar : $b women in the Greek myths 250 $a First U. S. edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper Perennial, $c 2022. 300 $a 308 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "Originally published in Great Britain in 2020 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan"--Copyright page. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Homer to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, from the Trojan War to Jason and the Argonauts. And still, today, a wealth of novels, plays and films draw their inspiration from stories first told almost three thousand years ago. But modern tellers of Greek myth have usually been men, and have routinely shown little interest in telling women's stories. And when they do, those women are often painted as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil. But Pandora -- the first woman, who according to legend unloosed chaos upon the world -- was not a villain, and even Medea and Phaedra have more nuanced stories than generations of retellings might indicate. Now, in Pandora's Jar, Natalie Haynes -- broadcaster, writer and passionate classicist -- redresses this imbalance. Taking Pandora and her jar (the box came later) as the starting point, she puts the women of the Greek myths on equal footing with the menfolk. After millennia of stories telling of gods and men, be they Zeus or Agamemnon, Paris or Odysseus, Oedipus or Jason, the voices that sing from these pages are those of Hera, Athena and Artemis, and of Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Eurydice and Penelope. 505 0 $a Pandora -- Jocasta -- Helen -- Medusa -- The Amazons -- Clytemnestra -- Eurydice -- Phaedra -- Medea -- Penelope. 600 00 $a Clytemnestra, $c Queen of Mycenae. 600 00 $a Hera $c (Greek deity) 600 00 $a Athena $c (Greek deity) 600 00 $a Artemis $c (Greek deity) 600 00 $a Eurydice $c (Greek mythological character) 600 00 $a Penelope $c (Greek mythological character) 650 0 $a Jocasta (Greek mythology) 650 0 $a Mythology, Greek. 650 0 $a Women $x Mythology. 941 $a 16 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20240809020007.0 952 $l BRPD251 $d 20240119020427.0 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206010925.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032437.0 952 $l YUPD232 $d 20230527010748.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230505010243.0 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20221206013024.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20221012010534.0 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20221008011725.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220708010614.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220706023153.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20220705011913.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20220630011826.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220510011741.0 952 $l YAPC771 $d 20220506020634.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220503071024.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1B445DECACCA11ECBC97898D42ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search